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Microsoft TypeScript 1.0 Arrives

By Adrian Bridgwater, April 04, 2014

TypeScript 1.0 is now a fully supported language in Visual Studio VS2013 and VS2012

As part of the announcements made at Build 2014, we have learned that Microsoft Visual Studio will now be enhanced through Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release Candidate, and that TypeScript 1.0 has now arrived as a fully supported language in Visual Studio VS2013 and VS2012.

First announced as TypeScript 0.8 in October 2012, the 1.0 version comes after what is now roughly 18 months of work and focus.

The TypeScript language for creating large-scale JavaScript applications is a "superset" of the JavaScript language itself; it can be used by software application developers who can now rest easy in the knowledge that type definition files based on 1.0 will be supported by future releases.

TypeScript is also now a "first-class citizen" of Visual Studio, and Microsoft says it will continue to invest in both the language and in making Visual Studio a more productive environment for both JavaScript and TypeScript development.

Microsoft's Jonathan Turner says that codebases written in TypeScript have been the TypeScript project's "proving ground", with some exceeding a half a million lines of code and continuing to grow in scale and complexity.

Community-contributed plug-ins for editors such as Eclipse also offer a "seamless" editing experience with statement completion, early errors, linting, and so on.

"Today, we're announcing that we will begin taking pull requests for the TypeScript compiler and language service. For now, we'll focus on fixing bugs, improving documentation, and general cleanup. This will help us get the gears turning and work out any kinks in the submission process. This will be a learning process for us, and we will be open with the community throughout the process. Please be patient with us while we make the inevitable adjustments. As we learn, we will continue to make TypeScript more open. We hope you'll be with us on this journey and contribute to the project," said Microsoft's Turner.

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